Quantitative Quotes

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

— Karl Marx

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

— Hilaire Belloc

“The overall mix between the two types of analysis is 70/30: 70 percent quantitative and 30 percent qualitative.”

— Victor Cheng

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

— Pitirim Sorokin

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

— Jack Horner

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

— Blythe Masters

Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.

— Fritz Haber

“I don’t know if it’s right to count people like you count numbers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't…

— Nathan Shedroff

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus,…

— Kenneth Fisher

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you…

— William Turner

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as…

— Walter Rudolf Hess

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What…

— Kevin O'Leary

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

— Alexis Tsipras

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.

— Sergio Marchionne

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on quantitative data

— Anonymous

“[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

— Ian Hacking

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

— Nate Silver

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to…

— James Tobin

“Strictly quantitative mechanical calculations, by ratio or number, cannot be applied beforehand to human free productive organization as a whole.”

— Isabel Paterson

“Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms…

— Ben Bernanke

“quantitative analysis is often not useful in determining why a certain decision in a client organization was made and how certain processes…

— Victor Cheng

I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is…

— Kenneth Fisher

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most…

— John Tuley